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Internet

ICANN: Enabling the stalker

You’ve had a weblog for a couple of years. You started out with a Blogspot weblog, but have since started your own domain. You write about politics, but also about your life and interests, just like most webloggers. You’re aware of not giving away much about yourself, so you don’t talk about work or the […]

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RDF

Faulty URIs

Dare Obasanjo has a good post today on the failure of URIs when it comes to their role as identifiers within the Semantic Web, and points to a TAG discussion thread and a referendum on this issue. I don’t subscribe anymore to the TAG emails–too male, too pedantic–so I appreciate having these items pointed out. Still, Dare sums it up best […]

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RDF

Mind the Gap!

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. rdfdata.org’s newest data source is The London Tube’s Schedule in RDF/XML. The data is used by the online tubeplanner.com. Putting this data into RDF/XML is a wonderful idea. Can you imagine the possibilities if other London organizations started putting their events into an RDF/XML feed? Add yourself into the mix with FOAF, and a […]

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Plants

My love is like a red, red…

urh…Poppy? Hydrangea? Lilly? Weed?

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RDF Specs

What is FOAF and why do you need it?

I thought I would break in with a little tech talk and discuss FOAF, or Friend of a Friend. If you hang around weblogging for any length of time, you’ll probably come across this term. Might be nice to know that it’s not some kind of new goverment regulation. FOAF is XML created using a specific […]